Horton v. Sledge’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 1939 · most notably Porter v. Henderson (1919), Ex parte Hardy (1880)
41 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Carter v. Balfour's Adm'r · Foster v. Trustees of the Athenæum · Hunley v. Hunley · Halstead v. Shepard · Toulmin v. Hamilton
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“George Horton can in no event be entitled to compensation for improvements made beyond the rents charged against him,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holt v. . Couch“in the partition, George Horton (trustee) has no direct and immediate interest, but he has an indirect interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holt v. . Couch
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.